I've now seen this miniseries, and it's truly exceptional. Magnificent acting from everyone, especially the young kid, Owen Cooper, who's making his screen debut as the subject of the whole series. The second episode set in a school is a technical tour de force with hundreds of school kids as extras being moved around classrooms and playgrounds, and it examines some very relevant aspects of society. The third is the simplest of the four episodes, yet is easily the most powerful, essentially being a remarkable two-hander.
Highly recommended. There's also a bit more floating around about how this series was actually made. As I mentioned, each episode really was done in a single shot. And yes, they attached the camera to a drone at the end of episode two to get the flight over to the car park. Netflix has posted a video showing how it was achieved: https://x.com/NetflixUK/status/1901617851192033326 Each episode was first carefully rehearsed in short segments until they'd put together the full hour. Then they had multiple attempts at filming the whole episode. I believe the idea was they have five filming days for the episode with one take in the morning and a second in the afternoon. But in reality, fluffs and mess-ups meant more than 10 takes for many episodes. According to Netflix the takes used were: Ep 1 - Take 2 - shot on shoot day 1 of 5 Ep 2 - Take 13 - shot on shoot day 5 of 5 Ep 3 - Take 11 - shot on shoot day 5 of 5 Ep 4 - Take 16 - shot on shoot day 5 of 5 Adam On Sat, Mar 15, 2025 at 11:23 AM Doug Eastick <east...@eastick.ca> wrote: > Fascinating. > > Well near the end of episode two there must be a camera handoff from a > steadicam support to a drone or chopper for a high altitude flyover > transition from one plot area to another plot area. > > > > /Doug > east...@mcd.on.ca > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 02:35 Adam Bowie <a...@adambowie.co.uk> wrote: > >> The episodes are indeed all "one-ers" as they call them. Each episode was >> rehearsed for two weeks before they shot it in a single take. I don't >> believe any trickery was used to hide edits. >> >> The director has worked before with actor/creator Stephen Graham, in this >> style on the movie Boiling Point, set behind the scenes at a restaurant. >> That too was a single take. (The spin-off TV series did not use the same >> technique). >> >> That all said, I've still to watch Adolescence, although >> writer/co-creator Jack Thorne has an incredible resume, including >> everything from Toxic Town on Netflix to the Harry Potter stage show. >> >> >> Adam >> >> On Sat, Mar 15, 2025, 01:36 Doug Eastick <east...@eastick.ca> wrote: >> >>> British cop show about an adolescent murder. I'm only two episodes in. >>> >>> Interesting characters and mystery. Also kinda nice to see a different >>> justice system rather than referring to Miranda or amendments :). >>> >>> The cinematography seems to use one long steady continuous steadicam >>> shot for a whole episode. I'm starting, I think, to see where they make >>> either cuts (panning walls, passersby ) or digital fades). Either way, >>> still fascinating to watch. >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> /Doug >>> east...@mcd.on.ca >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "TVorNotTV" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send >>> an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To view this discussion visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrnORSTNGy2By_x1woPh29U%3D_VeyAPTGkUOuJuNzSXpaA%40mail.gmail.com >>> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BrnORSTNGy2By_x1woPh29U%3D_VeyAPTGkUOuJuNzSXpaA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >>> . >>> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To view this discussion visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAQbqv46qCSUnTvj6AgJKjVbAYOSY3L44fWN95%3DTtNbJQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAQbqv46qCSUnTvj6AgJKjVbAYOSY3L44fWN95%3DTtNbJQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BpBiFYm02ps8T0BWrAtRjoXHRrQufMgKLgqTx9G-Skuuw%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAK5Q1BpBiFYm02ps8T0BWrAtRjoXHRrQufMgKLgqTx9G-Skuuw%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tvornottv+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGC_Om-Z1oTMFj3%2B2Q9pEkfaABW0Wqy04%2B6jmAqr1FHxLQ%40mail.gmail.com.
